How the mole came to be

Folktales are a story-telling tradition that have been handed down from generation to generation and are not necessarily true. Trickery That night, the rich man dug a deep trench in the poor man’s portion of the field and told his son to hide in the ground. The rich man went close to the hole in which he had buried his son and said, “Oh God, please find a solution to our dilemma. Please let us who this land belongs to.” Immediately, the son shouted from his hiding place, “It is the rich man’s land. Then God said to the rich man, “As a punishment, your son will stay beneath the earth all the days of his life, as long as the sun is in the sky.” The rich man’s son was transformed into a mole and spent the rest of his life below the earth’s surface, fleeing with the rising of the sun.